The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear the case of a Pennsylvania woman whose home, allegedly situated on an ancestral burial ground, was deemed public property by the local municipality.
The court granted Rose Mary Knick’s certiorari petition March 5, agreeing to weigh in on the constitutionality of the state-litigation requirement in takings cases, which bars property owners from filing takings claims in federal court until they exhaust state court remedies, derived from the 1985 high court ruling in Williamson County Regional Planning Commission v. Hamilton Bank of Johnson City.
